The official website of “NieR:Automata Ver1.1a” anime revealed a brand new key visual for the upcoming Part 2 of this series. It is also announced that part 2 (cour 2) of this anime will be released on July 5, 2024. The official X account of Nier:Automata anime released the brand-new Visual:
This new key visual for part 2 of this anime is also drawn by Character designer and chief animation director Jun Nakai and this time the androids 2B, 9S, and A2 are lying down in this new visual. In this visual, we can also spot the mysterious girl in red clothes which hints at the future developments in this story.
The official X account describes this visual: “They are perpetually trapped… in a never-ending spiral of life and death.“
Bookmark our website for more updates. Animation studio A-1 Pictures will be back for animating part 2 of NieR:Automata Ver1.1a. All staff members and Voice acting cast from Part 1 will be back in Part 2.
About NieR:Automata
Nier: Automata is an action role-playing game developed by PlatinumGames and published by Square Enix in 2017. It was originally released for PlayStation 4 and Windows via Steam. It also got Xbox One port in the same year and A Nintendo Switch port in 2022.
This game later got an anime adaptation titled “Nier:Automata Ver1.1a” by studio A-1 Pictures, directed by Ryouji Masuyama and co-written by Masuyama and Yoko Taro.
Steam describes this game plot as:
“NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.
Humanity has been driven from the Earth by mechanical beings from another world. In a final effort to take back the planet, the human resistance sends a force of android soldiers to destroy the invaders. Now, a war between machines and androids rages on… A war that could soon unveil a long-forgotten truth of the world.“
Source: Official Website